Date

Thursday, 25 Oct 2018 7:00 PM

SysAdmins are obsolete, we need more DevOps engineers! Or do we? Why technology X is not what you need right now? Why ignoring skills that are already present in the team may be a huge risk? Why everything-as-code is an effective approach? Why not investing in team member education may be very destructive? Why not having time is a bad excuse for not automating? Why process improvement effects may not be observable immediately? Why cost of automation sometimes is higher than the time invested in writing the scripts?

Find out the answers to these questions, and more. Our first speaker, Andrey Adamovich, Software Architect at Aestas IT, will give several use cases from his personal experience helping organizations to implement DevOps initiatives and automation of software delivery and testing.

The second speaker, Andrei Pietrosu, Senior system engineer at Netcentric, will talk about "Standardization over the entire board in IaaS". There is an art in knowing how much is enough when standardising. Ever wondered how much diversity and client specificity you should allow for when standardising accross the board? If we standardise everything, what good does it do? Lastly, when everything is nicely boxed up, what are the next steps?

Andrey Adamovich is a software craftsman with many years of experience in different lifecycle phases of software creation. Andrey's love is JVM ecosystem. In recent years, he tries to apply JVM goodness to DevOps initiatives his company is implementing for several clients. He is one of the authors of Groovy 2 Cookbook as well as frequent speaker at local communities and conferences.

Date

Tuesday, 15 Jan 2019 7:00 PM

What

The code and beer idea is simple enough: we gather in the evening after work, in a pub, have a beer and write some code. It is a social coding event where you can share ideas with other developers. You can come and leave whenever you want.

Why would you come and join us

Meet other programmersWork on your own projectHelp others with their projectsFind someone who might help you with a specific topicPair with someone and learn new thingsJust hang around and talk to people

How

Bring your laptop and some code that you'll be working on. If you don't have code then think about what you would like to practice during the evening.

There is no predefined agenda. We just meet and work on whatever we feel like.

Important

Please specify what you would like to do during the evening by answering the question "What would you like to practice?" when registering.

Also, as soon as you know you can no longer attend the meeting please change your RSVP to NO immediately. Consider this gesture a sign of respect towards other members of this group who might want to attend in your place.

The number of attendees is limited because of the difficulties of finding a big pub and making reservations for a big group.

Date

Tuesday, 01 Jan 2019 7:00 PM

What

The code and beer idea is simple enough: we gather in the evening after work, in a pub, have a beer and write some code. It is a social coding event where you can share ideas with other developers. You can come and leave whenever you want.

Why would you come and join us

Meet other programmersWork on your own projectHelp others with their projectsFind someone who might help you with a specific topicPair with someone and learn new thingsJust hang around and talk to people

How

Bring your laptop and some code that you'll be working on. If you don't have code then think about what you would like to practice during the evening.

There is no predefined agenda. We just meet and work on whatever we feel like.

Important

Please specify what you would like to do during the evening by answering the question "What would you like to practice?" when registering.

Also, as soon as you know you can no longer attend the meeting please change your RSVP to NO immediately. Consider this gesture a sign of respect towards other members of this group who might want to attend in your place.

The number of attendees is limited because of the difficulties of finding a big pub and making reservations for a big group.

Date

Wednesday, 26 Dec 2018 7:00 PM

Experience frequent product delivery with peers like you!

Whether you are interested to get your hands dirty with code, or to bring improvement ideas to a software product, join us for this new monthly meetup series. We will develop a new software product from scratch.

WHAT WE WILL BUILD:

Imagine you're in the mood for dining in the city this evening. You have an approximate idea of what you want to eat, and you have a budget limit. How do you decide where to go? How do you make a reservation? How do you know the restaurant is not already fully booked?

That's what our software product will offer: a place where you can easily make a restaurant reservation based on a few simple criteria.

HOW IS THIS GOING TO WORK?

The facilitator (Alin Pandichi) will play the role of a Product Owner. He will provide user stories for you to pick up and implement. He will also prioritize the features based on the feedback we will get from the users of the product.

You will receive all the assistance you need in order to contribute to this product, including guidance from a Technical Leader.

You are encouraged to bring a laptop, although it is not a requirement.

There will be a Github repository where you can submit your pull requests.

You can choose to develop using any programming language / any technology stack. This will be possible due to the microservices architecture of the product.

HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE:

Even if you don't write code, there are lots of ways you can contribute.

As a tester, business analyst, product owner, user experience specialist, designer, marketing specialist, (etc., you name it), you can contribute too:

Date

Tuesday, 18 Dec 2018 7:00 PM

What

The code and beer idea is simple enough: we gather in the evening after work, in a pub, have a beer and write some code. It is a social coding event where you can share ideas with other developers. You can come and leave whenever you want.

Why would you come and join us

Meet other programmersWork on your own projectHelp others with their projectsFind someone who might help you with a specific topicPair with someone and learn new thingsJust hang around and talk to people

How

Bring your laptop and some code that you'll be working on. If you don't have code then think about what you would like to practice during the evening.

There is no predefined agenda. We just meet and work on whatever we feel like.

Important

Please specify what you would like to do during the evening by answering the question "What would you like to practice?" when registering.

Also, as soon as you know you can no longer attend the meeting please change your RSVP to NO immediately. Consider this gesture a sign of respect towards other members of this group who might want to attend in your place.

The number of attendees is limited because of the difficulties of finding a big pub and making reservations for a big group.

Date

Tuesday, 25 Sep 2018 7:00 PM

Let's kick off a new batch of #AgileTalks meetups with our good friend and special guest: Thomas Sundberg, an independent consultant based in Stockholm, Sweden, having more than 25 years in software development.He will talk about "A testable architecture and understanding what to implement".

We will have two lightning talks as well.

Costin Calisov, a senior developer with an experience of 15 years on C++ language, and 8 years in Agile software development, will talk about "Best coding practices".

Daniela Stanciu, a Java software developer in fintech, passionate about Java and JUnit, attending conferences and meetups, will talk to us about "Testing Java aplications. What’s new in JUnit5".

See you there?

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Abstract for "A testable architecture and understanding what to implement":

An application can only be tested successfully using test automationand executable specifications if the architecture is testable.

The tests must be fast, reliable, and offer good diagnosis precision.They must also be easy to write, maintain, and execute. Tests withoutthese properties will be abandoned after a while and the effortcreating them will be lost.

You will learn about a proven architecture style that offerstestability and fast feedback in this session. We will examine anexample using well known tools to achieve the goal of working softwarein production.

Speaker bio of Thomas Sundberg:

Thomas has a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden’s leading technical university. Aftergraduation, Thomas also taught at KTH.

Thomas currently teaches Behaviour-Driven Development, BDD, with AslakHellesøy, the creator of Cucumber. Thomas has commit privileges on theopen-source Cucumber project, and works in partnership with CucumberLtd. as well as Mozaic Works.

As a consultant, trainer, and developer Thomas has created value formany teams around Europe. For the last ten years, Thomas has been aninvited conference speaker at GeeCON, I T.A.K.E. Unconference, andEuropean Testing Conference on topics including softwarecraftsmanship, clean code, test automation, and continuous deployment.

Date

Tuesday, 04 Dec 2018 7:00 PM

What

The code and beer idea is simple enough: we gather in the evening after work, in a pub, have a beer and write some code. It is a social coding event where you can share ideas with other developers. You can come and leave whenever you want.

Why would you come and join us

Meet other programmersWork on your own projectHelp others with their projectsFind someone who might help you with a specific topicPair with someone and learn new thingsJust hang around and talk to people

How

Bring your laptop and some code that you'll be working on. If you don't have code then think about what you would like to practice during the evening.

There is no predefined agenda. We just meet and work on whatever we feel like.

Important

Please specify what you would like to do during the evening by answering the question "What would you like to practice?" when registering.

Also, as soon as you know you can no longer attend the meeting please change your RSVP to NO immediately. Consider this gesture a sign of respect towards other members of this group who might want to attend in your place.

The number of attendees is limited because of the difficulties of finding a big pub and making reservations for a big group.

Date

Wednesday, 28 Nov 2018 7:00 PM

Experience frequent product delivery with peers like you!

Whether you are interested to get your hands dirty with code, or to bring improvement ideas to a software product, join us for this new monthly meetup series. We will develop a new software product from scratch.

WHAT WE WILL BUILD:

Imagine you're in the mood for dining in the city this evening. You have an approximate idea of what you want to eat, and you have a budget limit. How do you decide where to go? How do you make a reservation? How do you know the restaurant is not already fully booked?

That's what our software product will offer: a place where you can easily make a restaurant reservation based on a few simple criteria.

HOW IS THIS GOING TO WORK?

The facilitator (Alin Pandichi) will play the role of a Product Owner. He will provide user stories for you to pick up and implement. He will also prioritize the features based on the feedback we will get from the users of the product.

You will receive all the assistance you need in order to contribute to this product, including guidance from a Technical Leader.

You are encouraged to bring a laptop, although it is not a requirement.

There will be a Github repository where you can submit your pull requests.

You can choose to develop using any programming language / any technology stack. This will be possible due to the microservices architecture of the product.

HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE:

Even if you don't write code, there are lots of ways you can contribute.

As a tester, business analyst, product owner, user experience specialist, designer, marketing specialist, (etc., you name it), you can contribute too: